Any "banned book list" that consists entirely of generally beloved bestsellers everyone has heard of is self-refuting I find it very frustrating that people don't get thishttps://twitter.com/AnaMardoll/status/1311495815945486338 …
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In order to make these lists they cast the net very wide, they define "banned" as meaning "some angry Christian dad in a small town complained to a school about this book and the principal agreed to look into it"
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And, look, I grew up around people like that, and it's really easy to make fun of them and beat on them as a cultural piñata, and honestly they deserve it just on principle even when it's wildly disproportionate But let's be honest about what we're congratulating ourselves for
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Like this doesn't actually come off at all like having this unshakable principled stance in defense of absolute freedom of artistic expression It comes off as you gloating that Ned and Maude Flanders' values are out of step with the rest of the country but yours are not
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If you actually want to talk about censorship as a general principle you'd want to talk about the hard cases, not the easy ones Yeah of course we can all gather together to dunk on the fundies who want Harry Potter banned because it has witchcraft, that proves nothing
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Like, I'm dead certain tons of people who smugly share lists like this on Banned Book Week WOULD "ban" books under certain circumstances, especially if we use the extended definition of "banned" to "restricted or challenged" (getting it off store shelves or school curricula)
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I mean how do you feel about Alan Moore's Lost Girls? That book got "challenged" a hell of a lot, yanked by a bunch of distributors, seized at the border by customs officials, etc. ...Because it contains graphic drawn depictions of underage sex
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So are you cool with that? *Would* you be okay with the book being stocked on bookstore shelves or assigned reading in high school classrooms? I don't actually know the answer to that question for myself, but I'm asking How do these people feel about Cuties being on Netflix
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Again, I'm agnostic on the question of whether Cuties should've been made, as I generally am with movies like Kids (1995) that were challenged for similar reasons I'm pretty comfortable with saying Pretty Baby (1978), which features actual underage nudity, doesn't need to exist
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Replying to @arthur_affect
What about Superman or Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (both which contain child nudity)?
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Every country that regulates child pornography includes a statement that the mere depiction of a child in the nude isn't inherently obscene and whether it's obscene is a subjective determination based on whether the depiction is intended to be erotically stimulating
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Replying to @arthur_affect @queerthecloset
So, yes, it is an "I know it when I see it" thing that has to be determined by humans and can't be administered by a computer algorithm On the whole, I'm fine with that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @queerthecloset
And yes, I think it's really fucking obvious that baby Kal-El in the Superman movie isn't meant to get anyone off but that showing Brooke Shields nude in Pretty Baby absolutely was meant to be arousing and titillating
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